A Colour Box

Len Lye

Animation pioneer Len Lye’s experimental rhythmic fusion of Cuban rumba music and hand painted film, commissioned by John Grierson for Britain’s General Post Office Film Unit. An avant-garde music video as an advertisement for cheaper parcel post.

Introduction by Tom Hurwitz

Sessions

One Screening Only
21 Oct • 21:30 / 68’
Cinemateca Portuguesa - Sala M. Félix Ribeiro

Retrospective Documentary on the March: The Turbulent 30s in New Deal America / Propagandists of the World, Unite! [Reenactment]